The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films
E-Book, Englisch, Band 234, 268 Seiten, Web PDF
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6363-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Devoting chapters to the literary, historical, and biblical subjects used by Vitagraph, this book draws upon plays, pageants, school textbooks, and even product advertisements to illuminate the conditions of cinematic production and reception. It provides a detailed look at one aspect of the film industry's transformation from "despised cheap amusement" to the nation's dominant mass medium, while showing how cultural elites engaged in a struggle similar to that of today's American academy over the literary canon and national value systems.
Originally published in 1993.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction 3
Ch. 1 Responses to Cultural Crisis: Political Domination and Hegemony 17
Ch. 2 The Film Industry's Drive for Respectability 41
Ch. 3 Literary Qualities: Shakespeare and Dante 65
Ch. 4 Historical Qualities: Washington and Napoleon 111
Ch. 5 Biblical Qualities: Moses 160
Conclusion 195
Appendix: Vitagraph's Description of the Washington and Napoleon Films 201
Notes 205
Index 245